The sea was heaving under a thick white fog; and nothing else was moving but a few early ropemakers, who, with the yarn twisted round their bodies, looked as if, tired of their present state of existence, they were spinning themselves into cordage.

The attack, dubbed Ropemaker by the researchers at email and cloud security firm Mimecast, enables a threat actor to remotely change the content of an email after it has already been delivered to a user, presenting new challenges for users targeted by malicious attacks.

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